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For the practices of the great are for the guidance of others.
Coronation as king (882-911)
The Master, even though indifferent, enjoyed pleasures with his wives for a long time; for good-feeling karma can not be destroyed otherwise. When a little less than six pūrvas had passed after the wedding, while the Lord enjoyed himself with them, the jivas of Bāhu and Piṭha fell from Sarvärthasiddhi and entered Sumangala's womb as twins. Likewise the jivas of Subahu and Mahāpiṭha fell from Sarvārthasiddhi and entered Sunanda's womb. Then Lady Sumangala, like Marudeva, saw fourteen great dreams, indicating the importance of the embryo. The Mistress related the dreams to the Master, who said unhesitatingly, "Your son will be a Cakrabḥrt." Sumangala bore children, Bharata and Brahmi, as the east bears the sun and (morning) twilight lighting up the quarter of the sky. Lady Sunanda bore Bahubali and Sundari with fair figures, like the rainy-season bearing clouds and lightning. In course of time Lady Sumangala bore forty-nine pairs of twin-sons, like Vidurabhu jewels. These grew up gradually, playing here and there, very strong, very energetic, like young elephants on the Vindhya Mountains. Vṛṣabha Svāmin, surrounded on all side by his children, shone like a great tree with many branches.
Then through the fault of time, the efficacy of the wishing-trees diminished, like the splendor of torches at daybreak. The passions, anger, etc., of the twins appeared like grains of lac on asvattha trees, 100 gradually, gradually. Then the twins transgressed the three laws called 'hākāra,' 'mākāra,' 'dhikkāra,' like rogue-elephants three-fold control. Together the twins approached Rşabhanatha, and told him all the sin that was being committed. Possessing the three kinds of knowledge, recalling
190 894. The pippal is one of the trees most frequented by the lac-insect.
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